friendship

Best friends Cassie and Greg get caught in the middle of a decades-old football rivalry between their high school teams, the Spartans and the Trojans, in this novel loosely based on Homer's classic tale, The Iliad.

High school juniors Margot and Sybil are terrified to find that classmates have been turned into zombies, but decide to use this situation to their advantage, and accomplish all the goals they set for themselves after middle school graduation.

Fifteen-year-old Madison Sabatini, bored when her parents take her to stay in the gloomy beach town of Sandyland, throws herself into her photography, but when strange people start appearing in her pictures--who were not there when she took them and who are later reported dead--she is forced to turn to her quirky new friends for help.

While accompanying her mother on a business trip to Scotland, fourteen-year-old Kari and her best friend Lucas attempt to solve a kidnapping mystery.

When her parents check sixteen-year-old Janie into Golden Slopes to help her recover from her bulimia, she discovers that she must talk about things she has admitted to no one--not even herself.

Ten-year-old Jackson lives for baseball, but becomes distracted by the approach of middle school, his mother's latest boyfriend, and the presence of a girl--his good friend's sister--on his team.

Two sixth-grade girls obsessed with fortune telling discover a machine that tells them who they--and anyone else--will marry.

During the siege of Vicksburg, thirteen-year-old Claire Louise struggles with difficult choices when family and friends join opposing sides of the war.

Twelve-year-old Chinese American girl Paris Pan, who wants to fit in with the seemingly friendly girls at her new school, takes a dare to spend the night in a scary woods that is reputedly haunted by the ghost of a girl who died there years earlier.

Bird McGill, an eleven-year-old tomboy obsessed with flying in 1942, withholds judgement while her classmates maintain that new Japanese American student Kenji Fujita is a spy, but she realizes Kenji is just as American as she is when they find evidence of real spy activity during their research for a class project.